Alison Herman

Oct. 7 Series ‘Red Alert’ Is a Harrowing Recreation of the Hamas Terror Attacks, but Can’t Escape Its Politically Fraught Context: TV Review The Paramount+ series 'Red Alert', a scripted recreation of the October 7 terror attacks, is a harrowing watch that can't escape its fraught context.

I reviewed RED ALERT, an israeli series that keeps a tight focus on the minute-to-minute horrors of october 7th but arrives in a world where the attacks' legacy is hotly contested — hence david ellison putting his thumb on the scale variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

bluesky is an earnest place so here I will add this was a tough one to write for obvious reasons!!

Oct. 7 Series ‘Red Alert’ Is a Harrowing Recreation of the Hamas Terror Attacks, but Can’t Escape Its Politically Fraught Context: TV Review The Paramount+ series 'Red Alert', a scripted recreation of the October 7 terror attacks, is a harrowing watch that can't escape its fraught context.

I reviewed RED ALERT, an israeli series that keeps a tight focus on the minute-to-minute horrors of october 7th but arrives in a world where the attacks' legacy is hotly contested — hence david ellison putting his thumb on the scale variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

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relatability isn’t everything, and love/heartbreak are always there for universal material. but a surrounding environment normal ppl would recognize observations about? that ends in her teens

taylor is obsessed with high school because it’s the last time she had a broadly relatable social experience

opalite is a kindergarten singalong

Taylor Swift Praises Charli XCX After ‘Sympathy Is a Knife’ Reignited Feud Rumors: ‘Her Writing Is Surreal and Inventive’ Taylor Swift is clearing the air after one of Charli XCX's recent songs led fans to think there might be bad blood between the two pop stars.

it is honestly very funny that tree wrote this canned statement (that made taylor look v mature!) while her client was breaking out the burn book variety.com/2024/music/n...

not to be all parasocial but going from the left to the right actually bums me the fuck out

god bless you lol but many people at the time (including me for my first couple viewings tbh) did NOT see the vision

I don't really buy that this is his "most straightforward" or "most accessible" work...maybe in terms of story but certainly not in tone!!

I love obaa but I'm almost taken aback how unanimous and ubiquitous the praise is relative to prior pta films. feels more like a function of studio scale than its position in his filmography

doing karate chops in my living room while blasting this on the stereo goes so hard thank you mr anderson

Glen Powell’s Hulu Football Comedy ‘Chad Powers’ Needs More Practice Before Becoming the Next ‘Ted Lasso’: TV Review Glen Powell's Hulu football comedy 'Chad Powers' needs more practice before becoming the next 'Ted Lasso.'

I love glen powell as much as the next girl but CHAD POWERS is basically a new star reheating his own (and eli manning's, and jason sudeikis's) nachos variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

me and my husband — a san diego native and a california state employee who regularly commutes to sacramento, respectively — watching one battle after another

found pta putting this in one battle after another almost unspeakably romantic www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/m...

before sean penn was in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER he was a talking head in the bizarre charlie sheen docuseries, ripping cigs in his living room and waxing poetic on what a coke habit does to your sex drive. banner month for him

*takes position indistinguishable from a jd vance tweet* is this….wokeness??

today I blocked someone on instagram for trying to argue REAL american food is unseasoned white ppl cuisine but like, from the left

I went with the NA one! (mostly tea with syrups/vinegars)

I am on vacation and doing my best not to engage with The Horrors. anyway, here’s me with a cheese cart

Don't stop believing Some news, as they say

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

not what I’m saying lol

it should not be hard for the party of “maybe we *shouldn’t* give guns out like candy” to condemn a seeming political assassination while maintaining its principles

absolutely gorgeous grid today if I do say so myself

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Netflix’s ‘aka Charlie Sheen’ Is a Frustrating, Salacious Self-Portrait: TV Review Netflix docuseries 'AKA Charlie Sheen' is a frustratingly salacious self-portrait of the beleaguered star.

I wish the padded-out netflix doc AKA CHARLIE SHEEN were more interesting than its most salacious details. jon cryer mvp tho!! variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

I did selfishly wait until I secured my own lol

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER TICKETS ON SALE GO GO GO

I like the new technical format on great british bake-off

lucinda’s deli! roast beef w fried onions and blue cheese/prosciutto w apple and taleggio